<p>Requirements Checklist for Choosing a Cloud Backup and Recovery Service Provider</p><p>The NSA has admitted that the organization's use of Microsoft SharePoint allowed an unnamed sysadmin to leak information.</p><p>In what can be perceived as either a ringing endorsement of SharePoint's "collaborative power", or a depressing admission that, yes, spooks use the same infuriating software as we do, NSA chief General Keith Alexander indicated recent leaks came from a sysadmin being given SharePoint privileges.</p><p>"This leaker was a sysadmin who was trusted with moving the information to actually make sure that the right information was on the SharePoint servers that NSA Hawaii needed," Alexander says in response to a question by The Washington Post about the threat of insider leaks given the Buckshot Yankee penetration in 2008 and WikiLeaks, which we take to be a reference to the Hawaii-based mega-leaker Edward Snowden.</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/19/nsa_sharepoint_leaks/">Keep reading...</a></p>